US gov’t secures first-ever win against Android app pirates

On Monday, American prosecutors announced that two of the four men involved with two Android piracy sites, snappzmarket.com and appbucket.net, have pleaded guilty to copyright infringement. The case marks the first time that US authorities have successfully prosecuted a case involving pirate app stores.

The FBI shut down the sites listed above in August 2012 and filed charges against the quartet of men in January 2014.